Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Third-Termites of the Week: Illinois's bald, paunchy Governor Henry Horner. Chicago's bluff, blunt Mayor Edward Kelly. Add anti-Third Termites: New York City's Republican Bruce Barton, adman, God-man and Congressman from the Park Avenue district: "I feel sure that Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt will be permitted to have a happy, peaceful time at Hyde Park in the future...
...Cathedral in Manhattan, one day last week, drifted Protestants, Jews, agnostics, atheists and Communists as well as Roman Catholics, to attend a Solemn High Mass of Requiem for the soul of the late Heywood Broun. There were faces from Washington (Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter), from City Hall (Mayor LaGuardia), from Broadway (Tallulah Bankhead, George M. Cohan, George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin), from newspaper row (pavement-pounding reporters along with Franklin P. Adams, Westbrook Pegler, Rollin Kirby, Roy W. Howard, Herbert Bayard Swope). Many friends of Heywood Broun, accustomed to going to church only for funerals and weddings...